“I’m not naive about our audience being liberal 20 and 30-somethings – we don’t need to convince them that Republicans are bad.” “When I was at old Gawker, I would do pieces on scientology, I did a piece on eating ass, I did a piece on food trends,” she told me. “I don’t want to do the biggest headlines, I don’t want to write a righteous essay about how so-and-so is ruining the government.” She added that Gawker’s essays have a point of view, but she avoids anything overtly political, and that she hopes to get the range that the original Gawker had. “There are essays every day about Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill or various wonky political things,” she said. To keep Gawker unique, Finnegan has made it clear she won’t publish what most mainstream outlets are publishing. She said that, for her, this means publishing a combination of “fun stuff, a bigger thing, the bigger stuff, something serious, something totally dumb, just a cornucopia of stuff to read when you’re bored”. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. It doesn’t have to replicate what Gawker was, which means so many different things to so many different people. “Which is just something fun to read on the internet. “But when I separated the Gawker name from all the baggage, I thought, OK, I can do a new Gawker that is just what I want it to be,” she said. Finnegan was initially offered the job two years before, but turned it down, fearful of the connotations Gawker still had. It is part of the Bustle Media Group, owned by media millionaire Bryan Goldberg, who bought the Gawker domain name at auction in 2018 for $1.35m (Bustle Media Group also previously owned the Outline). Now, there is a new Gawker under Finnegan’s leadership – who is also an alumni of the New York Times opinion desk and ex-executive editor of the beloved, shuttered website the Outline.
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It was eventually bankrupted by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan – secretly backed by the billionaire Peter Thiel – after Gawker published a sex tape featuring Hogan. Its popularity among a certain, very online demographic is hard to overstate (Finnegan said, when she worked there, the homepage had 24,000 people on it every morning). Some felt its acerbic sense of humour punched up for others, it was sneering and toxic. Often, it was home to some of the smartest cultural writing on the internet. A blog with a gossip-y, insider-y tone, it reported on both the personal lives of popular media figures and global politics. “There was always pressure to produce as much traffic as possible,” she told me, “and you never knew when they were just going to fire everyone or hire a new editor, which happened basically once a year.” Now when she played the game, she suggested the answer was “maybe an Obama sex tape”.įrom 2003 to 2016, Gawker was the epitome of the very best or the very worst of the internet, depending on your perspective. When Leah Finnegan worked as features editor at the notorious media blog Gawker in 2015, she and the other staff would often play a game: what news story would get the most traffic in the world? Traffic was an obsession – writers were ranked by how much they brought in.
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